Ancient population · Antiquity

Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia)

Name: Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia) (Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian

Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian), with 2 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 490 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia), Armenia (Early Medieval) and SE Gaziantep Byzantine (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Georgian Meskheti, Armenian Hemsheni and Georgian Kakh.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a.

Period: Antiquity
Date: c. 490 CE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Beniamin 40.69, 43.85
Samples: 2
Published in: AntonioPritchardeLife2024
Catalogue: Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian.SG variant

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible`	2.43
2	Armenia (Early Medieval)`Armenia_EarlyMedieval`	2.74
3	SE Gaziantep Byzantine (Medieval)`SE_Gaziantep_Byz`	2.78
4	Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Antiquity`	2.83
5	Beniamin Artaxiad Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Artaxiad_Roman_possible`	2.90
6	Kura-Araxes Talin (Bronze Age)`Kura-Araxes_Talin`	3.04
7	Beniamin Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Hellenistic`	3.41
8	Hasanlu (Middle Bronze Age)`Hasanlu_MBA`	3.56
9	Kura Araxes Talin (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Talin`	3.57
10	Hasanlu (Middle Bronze Age, Iran)`Iran_Hasanlu_MBA`	3.72

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian Meskheti`Georgian_Meskheti`	1.78
2	Armenian Hemsheni`Armenian_Hemsheni`	1.92
3	Georgian Kakh`Georgian_Kakh`	2.24
4	Turkish Trabzon`Turkish_Trabzon`	2.36
5	Greek Trabzon`Greek_Trabzon`	2.45
6	Georgian Samtckhe`Georgian_Samtckhe`	2.47
7	Udi`Udi`	2.53
8	Armenian Gurin`Armenian_Gurin`	2.56
9	Armenian Syunik`Armenian_Syunik`	2.59
10	Georgian Laz`Georgian_Laz`	2.59

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J2a1a1a2b2a3b1b J-Y33322

Individuals 4

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA
`R11538.SG`	F	431-545 calCE	Beniamin
`R11542.SG`	M	431-545 calCE	Beniamin	J2a1a1a2b2a3b1b J-Y33322
`R11543.SG` outlier	F	421-538 calCE	Beniamin
`R11544.SG` outlier	F	419-538 calCE	Beniamin